Contrail spotting August 2007
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Hi ilpavone2004
Here some information about your pictures.
- Iberia is an A319 or A320. IB has no A318 in their fleet
- XL Airways: is a Boeing 767-200. So I guess his reg is G-BOPB
- Unknown 4 is in my opinion a A319 or A320 of Swiss International Air Lines. You can see it on his tail.
- Unknown 5 is (but I'm not 100% sure) a Boeing 737-400 of Hemus Air (reg LZ-HVA)
I hope you can do something with this information.
Kind regards
Bavo
Here some information about your pictures.
- Iberia is an A319 or A320. IB has no A318 in their fleet
- XL Airways: is a Boeing 767-200. So I guess his reg is G-BOPB
- Unknown 4 is in my opinion a A319 or A320 of Swiss International Air Lines. You can see it on his tail.
- Unknown 5 is (but I'm not 100% sure) a Boeing 737-400 of Hemus Air (reg LZ-HVA)
I hope you can do something with this information.
Kind regards
Bavo
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Thank you really much Bavo for your information! I'll try to check this flight but as i haven't got a radar i can check only departures from Rome airports because most of the flights that go to east pass over my head.
See ya you all, today is cloudy
have a nice time
Mattia
See ya you all, today is cloudy
have a nice time
Mattia
more photos on http://ilpavone2004.deviantart.com/
What is your location and at which time you saw all these overflyers?Moons / A wrote:and question about 2 Transavia 737-7/800 passing my garden at noon, heading West...? Flying to Ostend? Or what?
Transavia's are quite common over Belgium, today over 60 were counted, all from/to the Netherlands (mostly EHAM).
Making good pictures with a scope remains these days a difficult task. Next months things will surely improve.
Anyhow, used the cam occasionally on August 4
1246LT: British Airways B777-200 G-YMMK cruising at 38000 ft enroute Bangalore-Heathrow as BA118
1523LT: Emirates B777-300 A6-EMX cruising at 36000 ft enroute Dubai-Heathrow as UAE29
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Hey skystef, i just wanted to know what kind of equipment are you currently using to take such great photos!
Regards
Mattia
Regards
Mattia
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Hi
Moons / A
Hey, a fellow contrail spotter from my own town , I live @ Herentals too .
But I can't really name any specific routes above that aerea, they come from anywhere :
DXB-LHR
NRT-CDG
CMB-LHR
Northern Europe-Southern Europe
...
The only real large route nearby is the FRA-USA route, but it's about 5km more to the south so you always have backlit and you can only hardly see them, so certainly not photograph them .
Best regards: Yannick
Moons / A
Hey, a fellow contrail spotter from my own town , I live @ Herentals too .
But I can't really name any specific routes above that aerea, they come from anywhere :
DXB-LHR
NRT-CDG
CMB-LHR
Northern Europe-Southern Europe
...
The only real large route nearby is the FRA-USA route, but it's about 5km more to the south so you always have backlit and you can only hardly see them, so certainly not photograph them .
Best regards: Yannick
My scope is an 8" Skywatcher with 1200 mm. Sometimes use a 2x barlow lens, but with disturbing heat waves in summer use it rather seldom as the scoring rate is very poor. Tried it on August 4 and only two airframes out of ten were worth showing.ilpavone2004 wrote:just wanted to know what kind of equipment are you currently using to take such great photos!
What effect do heat waves have on subjects with very strong magnification?
One example below taken at noon of August 4, of course ready for trash.
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Hi
Ok, Vorselaar is indeed not so far from H'tals idd
But it explains why you can see the LH's and I don't...you live more to the South/Southwest, and that's exaclty where they fly (I used to see them when I lived in Oevel, and they flew NorthWest those days, so that would be in the direction of Vorselaar idd).
I also see a JAL every day (when the weather is clear ) around 4 or 5PM (sometimes later) but he's more heading from the North/Northeast heading to the South/Southwest. It's the JAL 777 (sometimes 744) from Tokyo Narita to Paris CDG, on exactly the same route you can also spot a ANA All Nippon 744 (already twice seen the 'Pokemon' one ). But I don't know the exact time of that one, but I guess it's earlier, could as well be 4PM.
Will keep in contact about that one
Best regards: Yannick
Ok, Vorselaar is indeed not so far from H'tals idd
But it explains why you can see the LH's and I don't...you live more to the South/Southwest, and that's exaclty where they fly (I used to see them when I lived in Oevel, and they flew NorthWest those days, so that would be in the direction of Vorselaar idd).
I also see a JAL every day (when the weather is clear ) around 4 or 5PM (sometimes later) but he's more heading from the North/Northeast heading to the South/Southwest. It's the JAL 777 (sometimes 744) from Tokyo Narita to Paris CDG, on exactly the same route you can also spot a ANA All Nippon 744 (already twice seen the 'Pokemon' one ). But I don't know the exact time of that one, but I guess it's earlier, could as well be 4PM.
Will keep in contact about that one
Best regards: Yannick
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Here some other photos i took
Malev, Boeing 737-400, HA-LOM
Air China, Airbus A340-300, en route Rome-Shangai
Unknown 6
Regards,
Mattia
Malev, Boeing 737-400, HA-LOM
Air China, Airbus A340-300, en route Rome-Shangai
Unknown 6
Regards,
Mattia
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Hello,
Thee week before last I went on holiday to Wales, which turned out to be a very successful trip for contrailspotting, nearly everyday had clear skies and there were plenty of contrails. I stayed near the Brecon VOR (BCN) which surrounds airways UL9, UN14, UN38, UN864, UL180, and UN862.
Here is an airspace map of the location, as you can see the skies were a lot busier on holiday than at home!:
A pic of 3 contrails on the UL9 airway:
Now onto the telescope pictures. I'll try to add as much info as I can but it was difficult to identify most flight numbers and what airway they were on.
I hope you dont mind me posting pictures from last month as well
# = Unknown Flight no.
27-7-07
GEC8189 KORD-EDDF UL9
AAL141 EGLL-KJFK UN14
28-8-07
DAL# Heading E UL9
MSK# Heading W UL9
USA750 KPHL-EBBR UL9
OHY# Heading W UL9
NDC# Heading E UL9
RYR# Heading W UL9
SWR400 LSZH-EIDW
BAW# Heading W UN14
MAH97 CYYZ-LHBP UL9
AFR# Heading W UN14
USAF C-5 Galaxy Heading W UN14
29-7-07
ACA851 EGLL-CYYZ UL9
DLH# Heading W UL9
CLX775 KLAX-ELLX UL9
EZY# Heading S UN864
GSM# Heading N UN864
MYT# Heading N UN864
EIN# Heading W UL9
PGT# Heading E UL9
30-7-07
GSM# Heading S UN864
DAL70 KATL-LIRF UL9
DLH447 KDEN-EDDF UL9
UAL940 KORD-EDDF UL9
DAL20 KATL-EDDF UL9
AAL84 KORD-EDDF UL9
SWR15R KJFK-LSZH UL9
DLH# Heading E UL9
TSC# Heading E UL9
SWR9T KORD-LSZH UL9
SIA25 KJFK-EDDF UL9
TSC606 CYYC-EDDF UL9
LTU1551 KJFK-EDDL UL9
UAE202 KJFK-OMDB UL9
DLH# Heading W UL9
? Heading N UN864
DLH# Heading W UL9
EIA# Heading W UL9
TOM# Heading S UN862
RYR# Heading N UN864
RYR# Heading W UN14
31-7-07
DAL32 KCVG-LIRF UL9 under another contrail
ACA846 CYYZ CYYZ-EDDM UL9
ELY12 KJFK-LLBG UL9
ETH501 KIAD-LIRF UL9
USAF KC-135 Heading NE UL180
ACA# Heading E UL9
SWR19 KEWR-LSZH UL9
AFR321 KBOS-LFPG UL9
WOA# Heading E UL9
ELY6 KLAX-LLBG UL9
KLM# Heading W UL9
DLH# Heading W UL9
EIN# Heading W UL9
? Heading W UL9
SAS# Heading W UN14
RYR# Heading W UN14
1-8-07
ACA876 CYYZ-EDDF UL9
AIC140 KJFK-VABB UL9
RCH# Heading W UL9
Globemaster Heading E UL9
EIN# Heading W UL9
BAW22W EGLL-KIAD UN14
2-8-07
GSM# Heading N UN864
MON# Heading N UN864
3-8-07
DLH407 KJFK-EDDF UL9 Crossing the moon
ACA# Heading E UL9
ECA# Heading W UL9
UAL932 KIAD-EDDF UL9
EEZ957 KJFK-LIRF UL9
Thats it! I hope you enjoyed my (looooong) report.
Thanks!
Thee week before last I went on holiday to Wales, which turned out to be a very successful trip for contrailspotting, nearly everyday had clear skies and there were plenty of contrails. I stayed near the Brecon VOR (BCN) which surrounds airways UL9, UN14, UN38, UN864, UL180, and UN862.
Here is an airspace map of the location, as you can see the skies were a lot busier on holiday than at home!:
A pic of 3 contrails on the UL9 airway:
Now onto the telescope pictures. I'll try to add as much info as I can but it was difficult to identify most flight numbers and what airway they were on.
I hope you dont mind me posting pictures from last month as well
# = Unknown Flight no.
27-7-07
GEC8189 KORD-EDDF UL9
AAL141 EGLL-KJFK UN14
28-8-07
DAL# Heading E UL9
MSK# Heading W UL9
USA750 KPHL-EBBR UL9
OHY# Heading W UL9
NDC# Heading E UL9
RYR# Heading W UL9
SWR400 LSZH-EIDW
BAW# Heading W UN14
MAH97 CYYZ-LHBP UL9
AFR# Heading W UN14
USAF C-5 Galaxy Heading W UN14
29-7-07
ACA851 EGLL-CYYZ UL9
DLH# Heading W UL9
CLX775 KLAX-ELLX UL9
EZY# Heading S UN864
GSM# Heading N UN864
MYT# Heading N UN864
EIN# Heading W UL9
PGT# Heading E UL9
30-7-07
GSM# Heading S UN864
DAL70 KATL-LIRF UL9
DLH447 KDEN-EDDF UL9
UAL940 KORD-EDDF UL9
DAL20 KATL-EDDF UL9
AAL84 KORD-EDDF UL9
SWR15R KJFK-LSZH UL9
DLH# Heading E UL9
TSC# Heading E UL9
SWR9T KORD-LSZH UL9
SIA25 KJFK-EDDF UL9
TSC606 CYYC-EDDF UL9
LTU1551 KJFK-EDDL UL9
UAE202 KJFK-OMDB UL9
DLH# Heading W UL9
? Heading N UN864
DLH# Heading W UL9
EIA# Heading W UL9
TOM# Heading S UN862
RYR# Heading N UN864
RYR# Heading W UN14
31-7-07
DAL32 KCVG-LIRF UL9 under another contrail
ACA846 CYYZ CYYZ-EDDM UL9
ELY12 KJFK-LLBG UL9
ETH501 KIAD-LIRF UL9
USAF KC-135 Heading NE UL180
ACA# Heading E UL9
SWR19 KEWR-LSZH UL9
AFR321 KBOS-LFPG UL9
WOA# Heading E UL9
ELY6 KLAX-LLBG UL9
KLM# Heading W UL9
DLH# Heading W UL9
EIN# Heading W UL9
? Heading W UL9
SAS# Heading W UN14
RYR# Heading W UN14
1-8-07
ACA876 CYYZ-EDDF UL9
AIC140 KJFK-VABB UL9
RCH# Heading W UL9
Globemaster Heading E UL9
EIN# Heading W UL9
BAW22W EGLL-KIAD UN14
2-8-07
GSM# Heading N UN864
MON# Heading N UN864
3-8-07
DLH407 KJFK-EDDF UL9 Crossing the moon
ACA# Heading E UL9
ECA# Heading W UL9
UAL932 KIAD-EDDF UL9
EEZ957 KJFK-LIRF UL9
Thats it! I hope you enjoyed my (looooong) report.
Thanks!
Some nice shots CW, of course the one crossing the Moon is really great and my favorite.
After my night shift decided to put the scope outside for half an hour as sky was crystal clear and this has been quite a while ago. Nothing special, just experimented with the barlow lens and without the heat waves results seem satisfying, so promising for use in winter period.
August 13.
UL607 @ 0801LT. THY A340-300 TC-JDN cruising at 37000 ft enroute JFK-Istanbul as THY2
UL608 @ 0817LT. Lufthansa A300-600 D-AIAS cruising at 31000 ft enroute Frankfurt-Heathrow as DLH4H.
UL607 @ 0831LT. United Airlines B767-300 N663UA cruising at 35000 ft enroute Chicago-Munich as UA906.
After my night shift decided to put the scope outside for half an hour as sky was crystal clear and this has been quite a while ago. Nothing special, just experimented with the barlow lens and without the heat waves results seem satisfying, so promising for use in winter period.
August 13.
UL607 @ 0801LT. THY A340-300 TC-JDN cruising at 37000 ft enroute JFK-Istanbul as THY2
UL608 @ 0817LT. Lufthansa A300-600 D-AIAS cruising at 31000 ft enroute Frankfurt-Heathrow as DLH4H.
UL607 @ 0831LT. United Airlines B767-300 N663UA cruising at 35000 ft enroute Chicago-Munich as UA906.
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Hello
Contrailwatcher UK, you have a nice map there, with quite obvious some very interesting traffic passing by there, I really like the C-5 :p:p Wish I saw some up here . Did once see a C-17.
I hae couple of maps with airways too in my posession but I don't really can't get very wise out of them yet...maybe I should take a picture of them and post them? I think they are only used for medium/small size aircraft (private jets/props) as most airways are limited until FL260.
contrailwatcher UK:
The unidentified private Jet:
Best regards: Yannick
Contrailwatcher UK, you have a nice map there, with quite obvious some very interesting traffic passing by there, I really like the C-5 :p:p Wish I saw some up here . Did once see a C-17.
I hae couple of maps with airways too in my posession but I don't really can't get very wise out of them yet...maybe I should take a picture of them and post them? I think they are only used for medium/small size aircraft (private jets/props) as most airways are limited until FL260.
contrailwatcher UK:
The unidentified private Jet:
That one's a Cessna 560XL Citation Excel but I don't know the airline either.? Heading N UN864
Best regards: Yannick
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